Nagasaki A-Bomb Photos Discarded In Chicago

Above, a section of the Urakami Cathredral in Nagasaki's Hypocenter Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Losing artifacts of history is always a sad thing. That is what happened when sets of photographs were discarded due to water damage. They were images taken the day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in August 1945.

According to Kyodo News:

Photographs taken the day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and held by a defunct Chicago museum suffered water damage and were eventually thrown out, Kyodo News learned from the court-designated receiver for the museum and county court documents. 

The sixty photos were one of three sets of identical images.

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